1. An Economy In Exile: Commercialization In Canada Presentation to the Association of Canadian Community Colleges Barry Gander February 2004

2. Survey Homepage Survey Information Survey Contact Information CATA Website Homepage Why ‘An Economy in Exile’? Our ideas are commercialized elsewhere:

3. Survey Homepage Survey Information Survey Contact Information CATA Website Homepage Why ‘An Economy in Exile’? Our ideas are commercialized elsewhere:  Light bulb (Henry Woodward, 1875 – bought by Edison)

4. Survey Homepage Survey Information Survey Contact Information CATA Website Homepage Why ‘An Economy in Exile’? Our ideas are commercialized elsewhere:  Light bulb (Henry Woodward, 1875 – bought by Edison)  Telephone? (Bell, in Brantford)

5. Survey Homepage Survey Information Survey Contact Information CATA Website Homepage Why ‘An Economy in Exile’? Our ideas are commercialized elsewhere:  Light bulb (Henry Woodward, 1875 – bought by Edison)  Telephone? (Bell, in Brantford)  Radio (Reginald Fessenden, Radio’s 1 st voice)  Television (Fessenden again, 1927)

6. Survey Homepage Survey Information Survey Contact Information CATA Website Homepage Why ‘An Economy in Exile’? Our ideas are commercialized elsewhere:  Light bulb (Henry Woodward, 1875 – bought by Edison)  Telephone? (Bell, in Brantford)  Radio (Reginald Fessenden, Radio’s 1 st voice)  Television (Fessenden again, 1927)  Winter wheat AND the first self-propelled combine  Electric ovens (Thomas Ahearn)  Pacemaker (John Hopps, 1950)  Computer animation software (NRC, 1950’s)  Superman (Joe Schuster, 1950)  Snowmobile* (Bombardier) – the only one of ten we have kept! Canadians invented many of the keystones of the Knowledge Economy…and sold them for peanuts

7. Survey Homepage Survey Information Survey Contact Information CATA Website Homepage Commercialization: A Common Front for Change Both see growth as community issue  CATA Town Halls: “First the city, then the country”  ACCC: 100 Regional Commercialization Centres Both see direct link from colleges - business  Colleges as conveyors & creators of industry clusters Both see people as the key  Skills, attitudes

8. Survey Homepage Survey Information Survey Contact Information CATA Website Homepage TechAction Town Hall

9. Survey Homepage Survey Information Survey Contact Information CATA Website Homepage Commercialization White Paper R&D….& C ! -- to sell products:  Disclosure hubs to share best practices from global cities and companies  National coordinating body (fed’s, prov’s, cities)  Commercialization funding, especially for SME’s  Measure Commercialization and set targets  Executive transfer to bring the best to Canada, via communities

10. Survey Homepage Survey Information Survey Contact Information CATA Website Homepage Importance of Harnessing Ideas It took 2,000 years for human knowledge to double. It will double again in this decade. Idea-driven change has only begun ACCC is vital to creating an Economy Returned from Exile